because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Apr 28th, 2008
I currently support four public facing sites that use Wordpress as the back-end content management system (CMS). I also have a Wordpress test platform on my laptop, where I tinker with several different themes, that supports another four sites. So, I’ve got eight different Wordpress installations to update each time a new release is made [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 31st, 2008
Ever since switching my site’s back end over to Wordpress in late December I’ve had to use Camino or Firefox to edit or produce new postings to my site, as there was a bug in the TinyMCE implementation that Wordpress was using. Any entry edited via Safari had all of its <p> tags stripped out [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 28th, 2008
In the seven or so years that I used Moveable Type as my content management system I managed to create 42 categories. Some were catch-all groupings that ended up holding dozens or even hundreds of postings. Others held just a handful or entries, or, in some cases, only one entry.
Switching to Wordpress allowed [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 25th, 2008
The visual editor provided with Wordpress is actually an implementation of TinyMCE. Contained in the Wordpress implementation is coding that checks the browser type. The coding following at least one of the Safari checks strips out all paragraph tags (<p>). This means that any entry you either edit or create using Safari turns in to [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 5th, 2008
One of the potential drawbacks to switching content management systems for my website was losing the permanent link to specific postings. I receive a fair amount of traffic due to some Google searches, and I have posted comments on a couple of sites that generate a few links per week. I didn’t want [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Dec 27th, 2006
I’ve started a second weblog, called some assembly required. I’m not sure how this site will fit into the “mark nichols online experience” yet. One thought is that I’ll save zanshin.net for longer, more introspective bits, and use some assembly required for shorter, chatty pieces.
Or not.
Wordpress.com offers free weblogs, with world-class software and lots of [...]
